Legal Counsel - Technology & Operations

DAZN; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports streaming service in the UK is seeking a Legal Counsel - Technology & Operations to provide legal support for technology-related business activities. Responsibilities include managing legal agreements, delivering business-focused legal advice, and ensuring compliance with internal procedures. The ideal candidate will have 2-4 years of PQE and a strong understanding of commercial contract principles. This role offers a competitive benefits package and the opportunity for flexible working.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension contributions up to 5%

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Around 2-4 years of PQE in a recognized technology/commercial team, either in private practice or in-house.
• Strong drafting skills for standard agreements, particularly technology agreements.

Responsibilities

• Manage routine legal queries and contractual work.
• Provide legal advice to business teams on operational matters.
• Draft and review legal agreements and ensure compliance.

Skills

Legal drafting and review

Understanding of commercial contract principles

Effective communication

Stakeholder management

Experience in corporate/commercial law

Education

Relevant degree

Professionally qualified Solicitor

Job description

Legal Counsel - Technology & Operations

Department: 32-931 - Legal - Tech & Ops

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK - Leeds

Description

The Legal Counsel - Technology and Operations provides legal support across a range of business activities, managing routine and moderately complex legal matters within defined areas of responsibility and practice experience. The role ensures adherence to internal legal processes and policies, delivers practical, business-focused legal advice to primarily support DAZN’s technology and operations teams, and contributes to the effective management of legal risks and the enablement of business delivery.

What You'll Be Doing:

Operational Delivery:

• Manage day-to-day and moderately complex legal queries and transactional work, particularly around contracts, contentious business issues, BAU compliance, and approvals.
• Support the negotiation and delivery of commercial agreements under the guidance of Senior Legal Counsel – Technology and Operations.

Risk Awareness:

• Identify legal and commercial risks in lower complexity matters and escalate appropriately.
• Propose practical mitigation options and support the implementation of risk-management measures.

Documentation:

• Draft and review legal agreements, ensuring alignment with templates and internal standards.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal precedents and policies.

Process Adherence:

• Follow internal legal workflows and contribute to consistent legal process delivery.
• Help identify opportunities to improve efficiency and consistency in legal processes and documentation.

Stakeholder Support:

• Provide responsive and clear legal advice to business teams on BAU matters, with primary focus on global technology and operational support.
• Build constructive relationships with the requisite commercial and operational teams and functional stakeholders.

What You'll Bring:

• Strong legal drafting and review skills for standard agreements with good understanding of key commercial contract principles.
• Specific technical expertise to draft and negotiate technology agreements – including contracts relating to applications, software licensing, network infrastructure and connectivity, platforms and enterprise systems.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management with an ability to explain legal concepts clearly to non-legal audiences.
• Ability to follow established workflows and maintain consistency whilst identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Some experience in corporate/commercial law and/or relevant legal practice in the Technology, Media, Telecoms sector.
• Ideally previous legal experience in relation to content delivery network services, live and non-live OTT platforms & players, video broadcasting production, video distribution and content acquisition. Working knowledge of the General Data Protection Regulation, Data Protection Act 2018 and the E-Privacy Regulation, and experience of managing compliance with the same, such as identifying data privacy risks, understanding data privacy impact assessments and implementing compliance procedures.
• Relevant degree and professionally qualified Solicitor. Around 2-4 years of PQE, having trained at and subsequently worked in a highly successful and recognised technology/commercial team either in private practice, or a strong in‑house team.

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.